The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
10 best books like The Snows of Kilimanjaro/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (Ernest Hemingway): Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories, Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!, The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Press Enter, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Sailing to Byzantium, The Variable Man and Other Stories, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall, The Traveler
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0964853906 |
Included are these stories:
"Even the Queen": Virtually every new technology spawns Luddites who insist it's a bad thing. In this case, an entire cult is involved.
Winner, 1992 Nebula Award and 1993 Hugo Award, Best Short Story.
"At the Rialto": A look at a scientific conference...
| Author | Syd Hoff |
| ISBN | 0064442373 |
Readers first fell in love with Danny and his prehistoric pal in the I Can Read classic Danny and the Dinosaur, created by Syd Hoff in 1958. Now the popular pair are together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers
What would happen if a dinosaur came to a birthday party? Come to Danny's...
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
| Author | John Varley |
| ISBN | 1568652798 |
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.
Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
| Author | Robert Silverberg |
| ISBN | 0743487117 |
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled... In his illustrious forty-five year career as a novelist and author of short fiction, Robert Silverberg has belonged in the company of the best writers...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0722129629 |
Billed as a complete novel along with a selection of shorts, The Variable Man itself is more of a novella these days. A man is pulled accidentally from his own time into the 22nd century where his very existence is a variable factor that the computers planning the war against Centarus can't plan for.
This...
| Author | John McCutcheon |
| ISBN | 1561453749 |
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).
What’s...
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
| Author | Daren Simkin |
| ISBN | 0374116393 |
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
| Author | P. Craig Russell |
| ISBN | 1561633917 |
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
| Author | Ellis Parker Butler |
| ISBN | 1410103226 |
This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig. This hilarious tale of bureaucracy run amok at the Interurban Express Company, and exponential growth of the Guinea pig population shows what can happen when ignorance and bureaucrats...
God Sees the Truth, but Waits
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0886820715 |
“God Sees the Truth, but Waits” is a deceptively simple short story from Leo Tolstoy, written in 1872, about a wealthy, carefree young man falsely accused of murder. I was fascinated by the parallelism between the events at the beginning of the story and those at the end, including:
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| Author | B.G. Hennessy |
| ISBN | 0689874332 |
"Nothing ever happens here," the shepherd thinks. But the bored boy knows what would be exciting: He cries that a wolf is after his sheep, and the town's people come running. How often can that trick work, though? B.G. Hennessy's retelling of this timeless fable is infused with fanciful whimsy through...
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0895986841 |
"Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open."
—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy banker holds a party at his commodious home, where a group of intellectuals argue as to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. One kills swiftly, the...
| Author | Michael Thomas Ford |
| ISBN | 1555834965 |
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 8484436802 |
Includes book and CD Audio.
Texts and recordings of the stories in English; introductions and notes in Spanish.
Back cover text:
"Cuando Toni Morrison consiguió el Nobel apenas había escrito seis novelas y solo un cuento: "Recitatif". La única pieza de cámara de la genial...
